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		<title>Ban the Ban Party!</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/ban-the-ban-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep your calendars open to come join us for the first official Ban the Ban Minnesota Party! Here you&#8217;ll have an opportunity to meet with Ban the Ban Organizers, Members, supporters and other like-minded people who think the smoking ban is an unconstitutional government intrusion. We&#8217;ll have several speakers, promotional materials, but most of all, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=250&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Step: Banning Smoking on Patios</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-next-step-banning-smoking-on-patios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[minneapolis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smoking on patios is restricted in Minnesota Cities<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=247&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul on FDA Legislation</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/ron-paul-on-fda-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Hysteria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now most of us are aware that our Federal Government is about to hand over regulation of tobacco products to the FDA. This &#8220;feel good&#8221; legislation is officially known as &#8220;The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act&#8221;. I could certainly think of many other more appropriate names for it.
My opinion of this &#8220;feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=246&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another BS Clearway &#8220;Study&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/another-bs-clearway-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ban Damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Impact]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It truly amazes me how the media will take anything that fits its agenda and run with it without actually verifying the legitimacy of the information it is propagating. Case in point is the recent study completed by Ohio State University, which was funded by Clearway Minnesota, that purports that &#8220;Smoking Bans Do Not Cause [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=240&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking Ban Amendment Introduced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smoking Ban Exemptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[larry howes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tina liebling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tom rukavina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today Minnesota Representatives Larry Howes, Tom Emmer, Tom Hackbarth, Loren Solberg, and Tom Rukavina introduced a bill, HF257 that would exempt certain bars from the smoking ban.
If this bill becomes law in in current form, all bars that make most of their sales in liquor would be permitted to allow smoking, provided that a modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=236&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buy a Carton for the Kids</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/buy-a-carton-for-the-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all love tax hikes, and here comes another one that is directed exclusively at smokers and other users of tobacco products. Here are some details I received from Audrey Silk with NYC Clash:
State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a program that already exists but which needs reauthorization upon a sunset date but also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=235&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth-Hand Smoke</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/fourth-hand-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Smoker Lunacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the junk scientists have released a ridiculous study on third-hand smoke that some people actually believe, I&#8217;d like to sidestep the issue of third-hand smoke, and move right on to fourth-hand smoke, which John Boston of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal describes as &#8220;someone sitting next to someone who is thinking about someone else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=234&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New for 2009</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/whats-new-for-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Organization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fight back]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ban the Ban Minnesota has several projects planned for 2009. Please join us!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=230&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from the Anti-Smoking League!!</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/merry-christmas-from-the-anti-smoking-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-smoking league]]></category>

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		<title>Attack by &quot;Shot in the Dark&quot;</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/attack-by-shot-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Hysteria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheila and I were featured in an article in Sunday&#8217;s Star Tribune titled, &#8220;Whose Life is it Anyway?&#8230;&#8221; The article lacks the normal bias of most Star Tribune articles; however, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily put us in good light.
Shot in the Dark, a website/blog devoted to current events unfairly attacked us reagrding the Star Tribune article. The author, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=225&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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